Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-10-20
NEyys OF THE DAY

The steam engineers of Chicago have Sc
csded from the knights of labor.
1t is proposed in England to raise
$500, 900 for a monument to Dickens.
Rain Yesterday interfered with the pro-
gramme Tor the Presidents entertainment
in Atlanta.
The argument before the New York Court
Of Appeals in the Sharp case has been post
poned until the 9th instant.
Hon. Levi P. Morton was yesterday grant
ed permit 20 build q 100000 seven story
apartment house on the northwest corner Of
fifteenth and H streets, Washington.
The liberal congress at Nottingham, Eng
lard, yesterday resolved that Inc disestsb
!ishmen. of The church in Wales should sua-
coed home rule as the leading paint of the
Iiboal policy.
The first of the ten-inch rihed guns for
the monitor Miantonomah, with part of its
c,rriage, has been completed at the Wash
ington ordnance fectofy and seat TO the
proving ground at Annapolis.
Benjamin Spriggs, colored, was convicted
Vt Upper Marlboro, Nd yesterday of murder
i'll the second degree in killing George Raw
lett, and sentenced TO seventeen years aud
six months in the peniteniiary.
curiosity was caught in the waters OF
the Chopisnk river q few days ago 1t was
a good sized terrapn with healthy, we'll
developed oyster on his back; and was both
literally aud liguraiively an oyster on four
| legs.
A man named Arthur Mitchell was ar
rested in Harrisburg Pa, yesterday and
taken to Philadelphia. He is suspected Of
the murder of policeman Johnson, CT Phila-
delphia, who was killed BIZ an unknown
man in the early part OF October.
The ninth game of the hasa ball champ.
ionship series, played q. Philadelphia yes
terday by the ST. Louis and Detroit clubs,
was won by the latter by score of 4 TO 2
Should the League club be successful in one
more game it will have won majority Of
| the entire series of tif. cen.
Simon Havey, So years old, of Eas. Sulli-
van, Maine, died yesterday from the effects
an encounter with large bear. The bear,
wounded by qua set in cornfeid, at
tackled Mr.. Havey near his house Tie
brute was pursued and killed.
2 A Dublin dispatch says: AT the Tuam
; fair yesterday thousands of head of cattle
and sheep we're offered for sale at iu;noue
bub uIepltC cAScSUiES'l lON
prices there were no purchasers. Large
greZiers declare that they cannot continue
business any longer, and must take advan
tage Of the bankrupt law"
The second days session fthe Psotcs.an,
Episcopal Congress WIS called to order by
Bishop Dudley, Mt Louisville yesterday
The topic discussed was The Higher Eau-
cation of Women" Rev. Geo. l. Locke, of
Bristol, 2. l., argued that women were ca
pable of receiving higher education. Woman
suffrage was possibility CT the future.
The text OF an extradition treaty with
Guatemala executed in 1870 is now publish
ed. An additional article was adopted last
winter by which it is agreed that neither
country il to be required to surrender its
own citizens, a principle insisted upon by
Secretary Bavard fer the protection of c!i.
zens of the United States from modes Of
trial and punishment unknown TO our laws
and held in abho:tence alike by the gov
eminent aud people Of the United States"